With notes from Patrick O'Connor and Regina Joyce of the IBM Electronic Support Team
The IBM Support Portal will soon have a new look. You have been telling us what improvements you'd like to see in the IBM Support Portal. We've listened, and our new, simplified website design is coming soon.
The IBM Electronic Support Team has produced a two minute video introducing the new functionality that will soon be available in the IBM Support Portal.
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The new IBM® Redbooks® publication - IBM Cognos Dynamic Query - explains how IBM Cognos® Business Intelligence (BI) administrators, authors, modelers, and power users can use the dynamic query layer effectively. It provides guidance for determining which technology within the dynamic query layer can best satisfy your business requirements. Administrators can learn how to tune the query service effectively and preferred practices for managing their business intelligence content.

IBM® Cognos® Mobile allows the mobile workforce to interact with information like never before - delivering relevant insight wherever they are. Users interact with trusted BI content through a rich and visual experience whether offline or online for uninterrupted productivity.
With a fresh new look and feel, Cognos Mobile’s native iPad application allows users to easily connect to multiple Cognos BI servers if required. Through a rich, visual and interactive experience, users can arrange content how they want to see it,... [Continue Reading]

Now's probably a good time to impress your boss. IBM now provides you with what you need to strut your stuff.
Browse, find and download visualizations from the extensible visualization community to quickly provide the best visual for your reporting needs.
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Whatever reason you have for holding on to IBM Cognos 8.4 – “upgrading is too complicated/disruptive/painful/time-consuming/expensive” – the truth is this: building and following an upgrade plan makes the process smooth and the results impressive.
View this one hour on-demand presentation and discover the truth about upgrading from an organization that’s done it successfully, using a thorough, well-executed plan.
First, you’ll hear from Louise McNicoll, an IBMer who has advised many upgrading... [Continue Reading]

Still haven't committed to going to IOD this year? Perhaps you need a graphical presentation on why you need to go. Print it out and post it somewhere prominent. Or, use it for your screensaver or background. You never know what may result.

The Connect 2014 conference agenda is built with one objective in mind: offering value to each individual attendee. Our mission is to have you walk away having learned something you cannot learn anywhere else AND having learned something that you can put to use in your business setting immediately. Last year over 350 top-notch speakers—clients, partners, and industry experts—shared their business stories and technical expertise with thousands of attendees, resulting in the highest session ratings in the history of the conference.... [Continue Reading]

Submitted by Garima Bhatia, Tata Consultancy Services
The purpose of this technique is to pass the user id as a default value to textbox prompt and provide an option to modify it, which can be used to filter out the data in the report.
Report has been tested in Cognos 10.2
Steps
Open Report Studio using the GO Sales and Retailers package. Select List Report .
Create a Prompt Page and create a table with 2 rows.
Drag and drop a Value prompt in the first row.
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The following example is an abstract from the IBM Cognos Report Studio: Author Active Reports (V10.1) one-day training course, available in a classroom or online environment. If you would like to know more about this training course or other training courses, please visit the IBM Training Course Catalog .
You will create an active report with a data iterator control that interacts with a data deck to make use of the swiping gesture that allows the user to navigate between pages on an iPad tablet.
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